by Reweti Kohere | Mar 15, 2024 | Employment
Businesses should be named and shamed for paying women less than men for performing like-for-like roles and fostering a work culture of pay secrecy, leading professionals have said ahead of International Women’s Day. Emerald Group CEO Diane Foreman said she has...
by Chris Trotter | Mar 15, 2024 | Administrative / Public
The latest Curia Poll contained some bracing news for Christopher Luxon. His ratings had taken a tumble, placing him (astonishingly) below the politically comatose Chris Hipkins. No one was in any doubt as to the cause of Luxon’s woes. They could be summed up in two...
by David Harvey | Mar 15, 2024 | Criminal
The Legal Services Amendment Act 2024, given Royal Assent on 7 March, removes legal aid funding for an oral or written statement of a person called by an offender under s 27 of the Sentencing Act 2002. The trend towards written material, known as “cultural reports”,...
by Gary Judd KC | Mar 15, 2024 | Misc
Provoked by the Supreme Court’s decision in Smith v Fonterra and others [2024] NZSC 5, Professor James Allan, Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland, on March 2 published in The Spectator Australia “New Zealand’s imperial judiciary”. Allan, a...
by Brenda Newth | Mar 15, 2024 | General
Where do you work, what’s your role? I am a partner in D&S Law. I run and operate the firm with my business partner, Pooja Sundar. Where did you study? I began my studies in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, as a mature student. I did my first two years...
